Kelly Olshan
PaintingMy work responds to the idealism and anxiety of endless striving, grappling with a relentless fixation on a better elsewhere. The 3D paintings and site-responsive installations invite the viewer to navigate towards an imagined landscape. Abstracted staircases defy spatial logic: rendered impossible to climb, they provide false pathways to an inaccessible place. Disjointed but interconnected, these structures weave through imagined skyscapes, waterscapes, and distant horizons that never arrive.
My work responds to the idealism and anxiety of endless striving, grappling with a relentless fixation on a better elsewhere. The 3D paintings and site-responsive installations invite the viewer to navigate towards an imagined landscape. Abstracted staircases defy spatial logic: rendered impossible to climb, they provide false pathways to an inaccessible place. Disjointed but interconnected, these structures weave through imagined skyscapes, waterscapes, and distant horizons that never arrive.
